Netflix is expanding its sci-fi/genre portfolio with three new series orders, to Neil LaBute’s The I-Land, starring Kate Bosworth, Natalie Martinez and Alex Pettyfer; October Faction, based on the IDW comics by Steve Niles, and Warrior Nun, inspired by the Manga novels. Netflix has ordered 10 episodes of October Factio…

ABC is not moving forward with a second season of drama series The Crossing. The Crossing premiered April 2 with American Idol as a lead-in, but that episode of the revived singing-competition series happened to match a series-low demo rating for a regular telecast. Post-Idol, the midseason drama managed to eke out a…

After a break of more than seven months, Kingdom is back June 1 for the second half of its second season on AT&T’s Audience Network, and the MMA-based series is delivering a lot of power in its punch this time around. If you haven't seen the Byron Balasco-created show starring Frank Grillo, Jonathan Tucker, Nick…

Natalie Martinez (ABC’s Secrets & Lies) has been cast as the female lead in Fox’s drama pilot A.P.B., from writer David Slack and Sleepy Hollow co-creator/executive producer Len Wiseman. Inspired by the July New York Times Magazine article "Who Runs the Streets of New Orleans," <em…

Natalie Martinez (Secrets and Lies) is set as a regular and Jessica Szohr (Gossip Girl) as a recurring on the the upcoming second season of DirecTV’s MMA drama Kingdom. The series, from creator/showrunner Byron Balasco, follows the story of Alvey Kulina (Frank Grillo) who owns and runs a mixed martial arts gym called…

EXCLUSIVE: Secrets And Lies star Natalie Martinez rounds out the cast of Message From The King, a revenge thriller from director Fabrice Du Welz. Chadwick Boseman stars as Jacob, a South African who descends into the Los Angeles underworld in an attempt to avenge his younger sister’s death and rescue her stepson from…

Under The Dome and CSI: NY alumna Natalie Martinez has landed the lead in Warrior, NBC's magical martial arts drama pilot written/executive produced by David DiGilio, directed by Phillip Noyce and executive produced by Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald. Set in a grounded, contemporary multicultural and sometimes…

FilmDistrict and Endgame Entertainment’s Selfless has found a female lead in Natalie Martinez, who will play the wife of Ryan Reynolds‘ character in the Tarsem-helmed sci-fi thriller. Reynolds stars in the tale of a terminally ill billionaire who undergoes an experimental procedure to transfer his consciousness into…

Under the Dome‘s Natalie Martinez (End of Watch) has been cast opposite Liam Neeson, Ed Harris, and Joel Kinnaman in WB’s action thriller Run All Night. Director Jaume Collet-Serra is reuniting with his Unknown star Neeson in the pic written by Brad Ingelsby and produced by Roy Lee and Brooklyn Weaver. Martinez will…

Stella Maeve has been cast in CBS' untitled Nick Wootton-Greg Berlanti drama pilot (formerly Golden Boy). The project, directed by Richard Shepard, centers on Clark (Ryan Phillippe), a cop, and chronicles his meteoric rise from officer to detective and ultimately police commissioner. Maeve, repped by Abrams Artists…